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Subject: [Leica] IMG: My most viewed photo, and tracking online use of ones images
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:07:31 -0800
References: <19B3774C-31C6-4CCE-938D-9D149A34EB4E@yahoo.co.uk>

Digimarc.com is one of the earliest one. Cost $$$ though. Never use it.

I think there are a few competitors now. Google it?

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Peter Cheyne
<geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> I looked up my most viewed and most 'favourited' image on Flickr, and, no
> surprises, it was of a pretty Japanese tattooed lady in bikini on the 
> beach.
>
> <
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/220004103/#/photos/geordiepete/220004103/lightbox/
> >
>
> I think other LUGgers have found similar results with their photos.
>
> Most of the views came from outside Flickr, and were directed by tattoo
> websites.  I'm not *too* bothered that permission to link to my photos
> wasn't asked, because I don't have any delusions about being a good
> photographer.  However, it got me thinking, it would be useful for every
> image to have an embedded code so that photographers and illustrators could
> track the use of their images online.  Some kind of invisible watermark 
> that
> can be traced by a Google search.  Does such a thing exist?
>
> Peter Cheyne
>
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